Fakir Mohan Senapati's literary device of using satire served a dual purpose. It was a strategy that made possible a veiled criticism of the colonial state and the norms it imposed but was also an ...

Like all literary panels titled so vaguely, the definition of the theme of ‘Satire’ took up several minutes. But fortunately, that debate didn’t occur until the end of the session, near and during the ...

Did postmodernism kill literary satire? I’ve been wondering about this in the wake of the terror attacks on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, known for ...

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Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips our imagination on a daily—or even hourly—basis? Today's guests are two young novelists ...

Among the many literary dreams I nurture (second only to the one where I fly pillion on a pushpaka vimanam piloted by Devdutt Pattanaik to drop in for a casual chat at Vaikunta, Kailasha and Amish ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's been one of those weeks for Malcolm Turnbull. Stumbling into a royal commission into the banks and copping flak for feeble ...

A decade ago, Cord Jefferson was one of the most captivating writers at Gawker, the then-flourishing news and gossip blog. In 2014, during the early Black Lives Matter movement, he wrote an essay ...

The Man Booker Prize is given in England each year to "the best novel in the opinion of the judges." And if you're the gambling type, you can place bets on who you think will win. At one point in 2013 ...